No.
"Was there any deliberate attempt to lower your assessment scores?"
No.
“Look,” Jiang Nuan spread her hands, “the teacher has indeed fulfilled his duty as a teacher.”
"But he hits people, he always hits people!" Huang Xiaosi said indignantly.
"So, I'm saying your mistake was that you didn't realize it," Jiang Nuan explained. "I warned you long ago not to try to be clever, but you didn't listen, and now you've learned your lesson!"
“Mother, that’s not how it is,” Huang Xiaosi kicked away the pebbles under her feet before speaking. “The teacher made me practice calligraphy. After I finished writing, I handed it to him, but he said I wasn’t serious enough and made me explain the meaning. No matter whether I answered or not, or whether it was correct or not, he could always find a mistake.”
"You think the Master's words are wrong and unreasonable?"
"Not entirely. Some of it makes sense, and some doesn't."
"Give your mother an example."
"Just today, he asked me to interpret 'If you have fields but don't cultivate them, your granaries will be empty; if you have books but don't read them, your descendants will be foolish. When the granaries are empty, the years will be scarce; when your descendants are foolish, they will be ignorant of etiquette.' I said I didn't know. Confucius taught that to know is to know, and to not know is to not know."
"You really don't know?"
“I know, but I don’t want to answer,” Huang Xiaosi said dejectedly. “Last time I answered correctly, I still got beaten up.”
"What did the Master say?"
Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaosi awkwardly touched his nose and said, "You said I only had a superficial understanding and didn't even realize it, but you were actually quite smug about it."
"And then what?"
"Later, what the Master said was almost the same as what I said."
“There’s a slight difference,” Huang Yi began, “The Master pointed out the source.”
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